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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2007:0012-01 Moderate: Kernel Update

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Calendar Grey January 17, 2007
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Essential maintenance release for Ubuntu OS kernel, targeting significant vulnerabilities and problems. Users are advised to perform an upgrade.
Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (64 bit architectures) This security advisory ...

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.

5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

197674 - CVE-2006-2935 Possible buffer overflow in DVD handling 207307 - CVE-2006-4997 IP over ATM clip_mkip dereference freed pointer 217621 - kernel may oops if more than 4k worth of string data returned in /proc/devices 217628 - Memory corruption when reading /proc/kcore

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1:

SRPMS: 4198e75b94fa33262e2042ca603202ce kernel-2.4.18-e.64.src.rpm

ia64: 653a27a972fa979ef033dc81c41bc755 kernel-2.4.18-e.64.ia64.rpm ec4ecd5ab36246b20b734faf13036a54 kernel-doc-2.4.18-e.64.ia64.rpm e26a51d7c0992feaf4ad1b9facc3574e kernel-smp-2.4.18-e.64.ia64.rpm f36658abf4c94c7570776fb0928b208d kernel-source-2.4.18-e.64.ia64.rpm

Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1:

SRPMS: 4198e75b94fa33262e2042ca603202ce kernel-2.4.18-e.64.src.rpm

ia64: 653a27a972fa979ef033dc81c41bc755 kernel-2.4.18-e.64.ia64.rpm ec4ecd5ab36246b20b734faf13036a54 kernel-doc-2.4.18-e.64.ia64.rpm e26a51d7c0992feaf4ad1b9facc3574e kernel-smp-2.4.18-e.64.ia64.rpm f36658abf4c94c7570776fb0928b208d kernel-source-2.4.18-e.64.ia64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package

Summary

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update Red Hat Enterprise root privileges Denial of Service bug fixes moderate security

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-2935 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4997 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List


Advisory ID: RHSA-2007:0012-01
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0012.html
Issue date: 2007-01-17
Updated on: 2007-01-17
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Topic

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update Red Hat Enterprise root privileges Denial of Service bug fixes moderate security

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 - ia64

Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 - ia64

Bugs Fixed

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